Neither of those are canon games either.
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Canon or not, there is an example of a playable Zelda in a Nintendo sanctioned game before this so The Mighty Mollusk's post is both factually and technically correct, The ad doesn't say anything about canon, it simply states "Play as Zelda for the first time". LoZ canon is fluid anyway. Nintendo themselves can't even be bothered to keep a consistent timeline for the games.
From my understanding of the Phillips situation; Nintendo was trying to pull out of letting them play with their toys but things were so far along (production wise, and legal wise) they couldn't stop them. So THOSE games didn't even have the support. Like when you ask someone if you can do something, knowing full well they can't do anything to stop you.
So, if correct, it's another of several reasons why Nintendo is adamant, and correct, about striking down and out any mention, reference, or even existence of those games.
Then you have nerds who insist on "um..... actually" just to show off.
But the fact Nintendo insists on the "Play as the first time as Zelda!" when Hyrule Warriors exist....
So, if correct, it's another of several reasons why Nintendo is adamant, and correct, about striking down and out any mention, reference, or even existence of those games.
Then you have nerds who insist on "um..... actually" just to show off.
But the fact Nintendo insists on the "Play as the first time as Zelda!" when Hyrule Warriors exist....
So Nintendo released a new official timeline placing BotW and TotK in the.... in their own timeline camp.
I think as long as they continue to deny Hyrule Warriors as cannon games, they're not much way to make them fit. But HW1 gives us a Hyrule where the timelines merge, and it can be said that leads to the new BOTW/TOTK timeline where elements from all the games come together. Its kinda Occum's Razor, but it still works imo.
If you got that from MatPat, he was wrong. There is no timeline merging of any kind at any point in that game's story. Some portals are opened at different points in the story, but by the very end of the game, all of that is completely undone with Hyrule reverted back to the same status quo it had at the very beginning of the game. MatPat ignored/overlooked the game's ending when he made his video.
I do, however, agree that that game could be used as a bridge between Twilight Princess and BOTW/TOTK (essentially placing those two games on the Child Timeline), but for reasons unrelated to any quantum convergence of divergent histories.
Echos of Wisdom just keeps looking better. I just don't know how Nintendo keeps doing it with their mainline franchises over the past decade. It's like the company has been going through a renaissance since the Switch came out. Now if current Nintendo would just put some of those resources towards a new F-Zero or Starfox and not just towards Mario and Zelda.
Not a surprise, although it's nice to see it mentioned in something official. Breath wasn't concerned with fitting in the established timelines, and Tears wasn't the slightest bit subtle about the two being their own thing that was only using elements from the rest of the series as desired.So Nintendo released a new official timeline placing BotW and TotK in the.... in their own timeline camp.
It's the same timeline (agnostic BOTW/TOTK positioning and all) that's been on the official website since not long after TOTK's release last year:
www.nintendo.com
HISTORY | Zelda Portal | Nintendo
Introducing the history of Hyrule, the setting for The Legend of the Zelda series.
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